Amy Hensarling
Watch This List
With the help of her fellow movie-loving friends, WTL host Amy Hensarling handpicks existential gems to learn how to become a better person & live happily and usefully whole. Tune in for healthy doses of cinephile truth and endless watchlist recommendations. One film at a time.
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Episodes
125. Psychoanalyze This: RED ROOMS (Frank Ritz) 25.06.2026 1:24:53
Amy & Frank hack into Kelly-Anne's brain as they metatextually mirror her obsessiveness whilst analyzing the French-Canadian serial killer tech-thriller RED ROOMS. They explore true crime culture, projection, empathy, and the *need* to *know*.
124. "While We're Frances" (with Jeff Boggess!) — While We're Young vs. Frances Ha 11.06.2026 1:18:49
Amy & Jeff do Hard Ticket meets Psychoanalyze This with a Noah Baumbach identity crisis double feature. They talk kindred friendships, insufferable hipsters, and AI world domination circa 2026.
123. Psychoanalyze This: KNIGHTRIDERS (Seth Troyer) 28.05.2026 1:16:17
Amy & Seth chat art vs commercialization via George A. Romero's 1981 labor of love KNIGHTRIDERS that takes make-believe seriously and believes in destiny. Embrace your Camelot!
122. Psychoanalyze This: CHILLY SCENES OF WINTER (Lowe McKee) 14.05.2026 1:15:48
Amy & Lowe chat romantic obsession, female directors, alternate endings, and unrequited love.
121. Psychoanalyze This: SPELLBOUND ( Ethan Lyon) 30.04.2026 1:28:36
Amy & Ethan chat Hitchcock vs Selznick, psychoanalysis in 40s cinema, uncertainty, objectivity, and sacrificial love.
120. Psychoanalyze This: REPULSION (Marc Dottavio) 16.04.2026 1:12:55
Amy & Marc discuss the first installment in Polanski's Apartment Trilogy, psychological horror, black & white breakdowns, and Catherine Deneuve's Carol.
119. Amy's Progress: RISKY BUSINESS (Amy Hensarling) 02.04.2026 38:46
1,000 days sober. Love in the Reagan era. Paul Brickman, the dream girl, & being quite lucky.
118. Psychoanalyze This: THE LIGHTHOUSE (Jetta Weinstein) 26.03.2026 1:18:54
Insanity or enlightenment?
117. Psychoanalyze This: WHIRLPOOL (Sakana) 12.03.2026 1:00:16
Amy and Sakana chat Otto Preminger's WHIRLPOOL (and LAURA and BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING, et al.) in attempt to hone in on domestic expectations and how far we've (maybe not) progressed since.
116. Psychoanalyze This: MEN (Tyler Harris) 26.02.2026 1:20:22
Amy & Tyler usher in a new series on psychoanalysis in cinema beginning with Alex Garland's culturally maligned but egregiously misunderstood MEN.
115. Amy's Progress: RELAY + SOUND OF METAL (Mitch Capps) 12.02.2026 1:18:51
Amy & Mitch chat silence, stillness, and getting closer to zero.
114. Amy's Progress: CRAZY HEART + RACHEL GETTING MARRIED (Andy Swart) 27.01.2026 1:12:56
Amy & Andy talk rock bottom, readiness, and second chances.
113. Amy's Progress: QUIZ SHOW (Amy Hensarling) 12.01.2026 17:12
We interrupt your regularly scheduled program for a brief confession.
Amy's Progress: Quiz Show 07.01.2026 19:16
We interrupt your regularly scheduled program for a brief confession.
112. The Phenomenon of Craving: ADDICTION (Amy Hensarling) 03.07.2025 45:54
With help from Gabor Maté, Patrick Carnes, and Allen Carr, Amy reflects on two years sober via Flight (2012), Heaven Knows What (2014), and Shame (2011).
111. The Phenomenon of Craving: MARRIAGE (Jacob Sunderlin) 26.06.2025 1:17:40
Amy & Jacob kick off a new series with its premiere exploring illusion & disillusionment in marriage through the lenses of The Thin Man , Paterson , Closer , and Anatomy of a Fall .
110. Amy's Progress: MAY (Kaylyn) 10.06.2025 1:02:09
Amy & Kaylyn cover Lucky McKee's 2002 cult classic and chat about women in horror and becoming fearless.
109. PROGRESSAUTEUR: Christopher Nolan (Tyler Harris) 22.05.2025 1:58:03
Amy & Tyler unpack the Nolan oeuvre for 118 minutes and explain the Inception ending once and for all.
108. Amy's Progress: THE SWIMMER + ALL THAT JAZZ (Andy Swart) 08.05.2025 1:10:43
Amy & Swart tackle midlife crises through empty pools, nostalgia, regret, and Broadway tunes. It's showtime, folks!
107. Amy's Progress: CALVARY + EVIL DOES NOT EXIST (Mitch Capps) 01.05.2025 58:30
Amy & Mitch chat moral relativism + the nature of evil and search for an edifying benefit of weighing both sides to everything.
106. Amy's Progress: MONEYBALL (Amy Hensarling) 17.04.2025 44:39
Amy, God, and Billy Beane.
105. Amy's Progress: WARGAMES (Amy Hensarling) 27.03.2025 37:59
Stephen Falken, Step Six, and a story about a toothache.
104. PROVOCAUTEUR: Charlie Kaufman (Frank Ritz) 13.03.2025 1:26:32
Amy and Frank talk themselves into Kaufman's filmography and find their way out of the swamp.
103. PROVOCAUTEUR: Ingmar Bergman (Andrew Hutchinson) 27.02.2025 1:10:24
Amy & Hutch cover crises of faith, relationships, and self via a special handful of Bergman classics.
102. Amy's Progress: MY DINNER WITH ANDRE (Lowe McKee) 20.02.2025 1:12:44
Amy & Lowe revisit the big existential questions Wally & Andre pondered circa '81 and discuss what it means "to be truly alive."
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